Hi again! I don't think I'm catching your point — the paragraph out of context seems accurate. Link to original piece?
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Replying to @kabulykos @davidfrum
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/perlstein-trump/523170/ … The issue is that he tries to draw the KKK and race riots into a common tradition of "illiberalism"
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Which is... a dubious maneuver. (And he doesn't specify white race riots like Tulsa, pretty clearly inviting us to include e.g., Watts)
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Replying to @csilverandgold @davidfrum
Seems a stretch. I strongly doubt most white people outside LA have Watts at the tip of their tongue. King riots *maybe* thanks to cable TV.
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Replying to @kabulykos @davidfrum
oh yeah, for the average person race riots = ferguson, maybe LA in 92. Either way, ppl think of black ppl with the term race riots.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @davidfrum
My first thought was "Gangs of New York" TBH — either way that verbal Rorschach seems a fairly minor component of the larger piece. 1/
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You cited Tulsa; I imagine Wilmington — notably both occurred back when black folks voted for Republicans at least 2:1. 2/
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Any analysis that far back will lose traction trying to assign racism to just one party. For Dems was collusion; GOP usually indifference.
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Replying to @kabulykos @davidfrum
His summary of Perlstein's argument (which I have not read) seems to explicitly implicate "conservatism" rather than the GOP specifically.
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So I think an analysis that puts Trumpism in a conservative tradition of American politics that includes the mostly Dem KKK is reasonable.
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and the notion that illiberalism has come primarily from the political right in American history is probably quite defensible...
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and is not, imo, at all undermined by "race riots," which is, imo, pretty damn close to a dog whistle.
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